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Owen has one job: keep Stasia from being abducted. Easier said than done when his fiercly independent client tries to fire him the moment they meet. His werewolf senses howl to life, and he's certain of one thing: Stasia is his.

All cyborgs come with an expiration date, and from the glitches in his system, Max knows his time will soon be up. When he's forced to flee his position on Nina Station, he joins the crew of the spaceship Kella as their resident cyborg and head of security. Time is running short as Max searches for anything that will keep him from going berserk and endangering everyone around him.

You'd think a demon could take a break after stopping a hell portal from opening and an assassin from killing innocents, but fate has something else planned for Brian and Raphael. There is no rest for the wicked. And speaking of wicked, the more Brian learn about his demonic inhabitant, the more grateful he is that he'd been chosen. When a new threat emerges, Brian and Raphael have to pull out all the stops to prevent their king's evil brother, Katashniel, from breaking through the eighth gate and bringing his hellish army with him.

In this sequel to Deviations: Submission, Dom Tobias and Sub Noah are back, learning more about each other and their relationship, testing the boundaries of what they can and cannot handle, both together and apart. Tobias works at becoming more comfortable and finding his balance as a full-time Master again. Meanwhile, his work brings out the true submissive in Noah, who faces some of his greatest fears, and his greatest secrets, confessing to Noah about a terrible time in his past.

A Detyen father and Oscavian mother have left Shayn wondering whether he and his brothers will be forced to pay the Denya Price. Unmated Detyens die on their 30th birthdays, but will that hold true for someone with Oscavian blood? Orphaned as a child and raised by scientists, Naomi’s mind is opened to all the secrets of the universe. But she can’t see the lies and betrayals standing right in front of her, and when experiments to control her powers take a dark turn, she knows she’ll have to run. It’s just her luck that her instincts push her toward a charming blue alien.

Colton Smith, US Army veteran, country music star, and Occupy Wall Street anti-one-percenter terrorist. While inside prison, his singing made him a YouTube phenomenon, catching the eye of North Korean Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un. Three young Americans visiting North Korea on holiday are jailed and tortured, and it’s up to Mr. Smith to pave the way for their escape. On this rare occasion, the CIA and the FBI work together to penetrate the hermit kingdom and bring the Americans home, all under the leader’s nose. Just when he thinks it’s all pizza and karaoke.

I’m sent on a mission to steal the magic of the most powerful supernatural alive, but on the way, I run into someone I’m certain I’ve met before. The pull I have toward Shane is the strongest feeling I’ve ever had, and with all the lies swarming around me, I don’t know who I can trust.

Shane and I are bonded, but we have to keep our relationship a secret. The pack is still at risk, and our rivals are lurking on our doorstep, waiting to strike against us.

Magic is in a short supply for a half-witch like me, which makes things very difficult when I’m bound by a blood promise to avenge my parents. With no leads left to follow, I make a bargain with a demon for help. Bad decision. The quest the demon sends me on binds me to a vampire named Killian, a half-mad, half-naked monster who hates my guts almost as much as he longs to drink my blood.

He came to Earth to find his mate, but on the eve of Kayleb's birthday, he knows that time is up. Heartfelt good-byes and one final night with his brother are all he has left...until he wakes up the next morning, alive and unmated. Or so he thinks. Tessa Greely didn't leave her position as a medic on a space ship willingly. Sure, she wanted a change of scenery after a disastrous relationship, but captured by pirates to be sold into slavery was not her idea of a fun vacation. There's only one person she wants to see less than the pirates who are hunting her down: Kayleb NaMoren.

When his brethren begin to discover human mates, Krayter knows his best chance at surviving the Denya Price is to journey to Earth and find the woman he’s been waiting for. Otherwise, he’ll waste away and die by the age of 30 like most other Detyens. But when his speeder crashes in a hostile human settlement, a mate is the last thing on his mind. Until he sees his salvation. Penny will do anything to protect her two sisters, even if it means remaining in Highland Settlement. But when an alien crash lands near her house, she knows that she can’t let her father’s men find him.

Tom Hargrave is a Vermont rancher with a love for animals and a special affection for his granddaughter, Paige. After the untimely death of his daughter, Paige is left in his care, and Tom sees raising her as a chance to redeem himself for his failures as a parent. Paige is a quiet and withdrawn 11-year-old, and while Tom struggles to connect with her he keeps on trying, wishing his wife Betty were still alive to help him understand the heart of a little girl.

We think of time as seconds, minutes, hours, and days. Our earth is millions of years old. It has undergone many changes, through the ice ages and prehistoric times, all leading up to the modern age. Do you ever think of your childhood, then all of a sudden you are 70 or 80 or 90 years old and cannot believe how quickly you go there? Your childhood friends to whom you were so close are gone, lost in time. Instead of being handsome and virile, you are in an old and aching person who has trouble getting up from a chair.

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Betraying his clan has never been a possibility for Avice Selleck. But with his hand clasped to Yarra’s, he knows that redemption is not a possibility. He is now an outcast, keen on being with the woman his mother wanted assassinated. Yarra has questions of her own too. Why is Alicia Selleck, the leader of the clan, intent on having her killed? What secrets and resentments does she harbor towards Yarra? As the two lovebirds escape into the night, they find themselves reuniting with one of Avice’s old friends - one who shares the same fate of banishment as he does.

As a journalist, Jessica Ryder knew how to deal with all kinds of situations, but when her editor assigned her a last-minute interview, she realized she wasn’t prepared at all for the number one tennis player Hayden Connors. She imagined him as some spoiled, rich kid, but found a bad boy billionaire, instead.

It’s easy to take him with me, but again that is a problem too. “What are you, Sapphira? No who are you? I don’t even know what to ask you. What did I see today? It doesn’t make sense. I need to process this; I don’t understand any of this.” He said all in one breathe. I am the princess of the mermaid world and also the future queen. I arrive in the human world along with my best friend and protector Armanian, to prove that I am worthy to be the princess.

With less than 72 hours on the clock and Xora still evading King Adriel's forces, time is running out for everyone. I don't want to think about a world overrun by demons who could care less about saving humanity. I'm doing everything in my power to track this evil thing down, but I'm not having much luck. I only hope others are having better luck than I am. On top of all that, my two mates are still adjusting to the fact that they have to share me. It's like watching two rams...well...ram the hell out of each other during mating season.

My failure to prevent a particularly nasty demon from completing a ritual to open a portal may have doomed us all unless I can stop what came through. That, of course, is easier said than done. Because what came through happens to be one of the most sadistic and dangerous demons that the eighth level of hell could spit out. I may be a powerful soul-eating demon, but even I don't think that I'm a match for this demon. I know one thing, I'm going to need help.

One girl wants the vampire's blood for its special powers, the other girl wants to sacrifice her blood so her death won't be in vain. He seizes the opportunity to make the best of both worlds. Guess which one of the three will get his desires? Warning: this story contains explicit descriptions of sexuality and violence. Not for the faint of heart.